VLC Media Player 2.1.5

VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC plays absolutely anything. It supports an enormous number of multimedia formats, and does not require you to download additional codecs. VLC features a complete streaming server, with extended features like video on demand, on-the-fly transcoding, granular speed controls, frame-by-frame advancement and more. It can also be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC Media Player now features fully customizable toolbars, customizable Skins, supports playback for broken files as well as zipped files, and so much more.

Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:

Core:

  • Fix compilation on OS/2

Access:

  • Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module

Mac OS X audio output:

  • Fix channel ordering
  • Increase the buffersize

Decoders:

  • Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
  • Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
  • Fix PGS alignment in MKV

Qt Interface:

  • Don"t rename mp3 converted files to .raw

Mac OS X Interface:

  • Correctly support video-on-top
  • Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
  • Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side

Streaming:

  • Fix transcode when audio format changes

Security contents:

  • Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
  • Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)

Translations:

  • Update British English

Download: VLC Media Player 2.1.5 | 23.6 MB (Open Source)
Download: VLC Media Player Portable | 20.5 MB
Download: VLC Media Player 2.1.4 64-bit | Portable 64-bit | 20.8 MB
Download: VLC Media Player 2.1.5 for Linux | VLC 2.1.5 for Mac
View: VLC Media Player Website

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